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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:R4D-5
    Last Military Serial:17106 USMC
    Construction Number:11928
    Last Civil Registration:N223GB
    Latest Owner or Location:Dyess Memorial Museum and Dyess Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, Abilene, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-1-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    30 September 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-108808.

    30 September 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 17106 as a R4D-5.

    To US Navy Department with new c/r N9881C.

    August 1966

    To Federal Aviation Administration with new c/r N51.

    14 September 1968


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: At Anchorage, Alaska

    1 February 1973

    To Department of Transportation with new c/r N71 {2}.

    10 March 1976

    To US Department of Agriculture with new c/r N916.

    June 1977

    To US Department of Agriculture with new c/r N223GB (DC3C 1830-94, 11928).

    1979

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored at Stored Douglas-Bisbee.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    30 September 1981

    Civil registration, N223GB, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    To Linear Air Park/Texas Museum of Military History, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Dyess AFB Linear Air Park, TX.

    To Dyess AFB Airpark, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    To Dyess Memorial Museum and Dyess Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    5 October 2023

    Markings Applied: Cleo C, X9A, JUNGLE SKIPPERS, 315460
    Walter Nicolds Comments: Our C-47A Skytrain was completed on October 5, 2023. In 2009 the 317th Airlift Wing was reactivated. Because of this, the aircraft recieved a new tail number and nose art. She now has the noseart for CleoC (43-15460) which flew with the 317th TCG in the Pacific in WWII.

    5 October 2023


    Photographer: Walter Nicolds
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